Articles by Gargoyle
Men’s soccer blanks UNC Pembroke, fifth of the season
By Eric Albury | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Eric Albury
The Flagler College men’s soccer team recorded their fifth shutout of the season and their fourth consecutive on the road Friday, blanking UNC Pembroke 2-0.
Flagler has a shutout percentage of 0.71, the nation’s fourth best. Goalkeeper Camp Bissel is ranked No. 9 nationally in goals against average, his numbers being 0.376.
Ray Anderson: Overcoming adversity
By Gorge Gallardo | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Flagler College SIFE’s program Containers for a Cause recycles old shipping containers into homes. This is the story of one recipient: 27-year-old Ray Anderson Jr., a quadriplegic man who lives in Hastings.
Head athletic trainer fulfills her dream job
By Lauren Ely | gargoyle@flagler.edu Photo by Lauren Ely Jennifer Rinnert wakes up every morning and gets to go to the job she has wanted since she was in high school. Rinnert, head athletic trainer at Flagler College, knew she wanted to become an athletic…
A new kind of training with Crossfit on the Island
By Sherria Jones | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The large, open space would catch anyone’s attention. Wooden boxes of different sizes, several different weights, pull up bars and rings take over the space and it is easy to wonder what takes place here.
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City Coffee starts Friday night karaoke
By Paige Garrity | gargoyle@flagler.edu
City Coffee of downtown St. Augustine is now hosting a series of karaoke contests which began on Sept. 16. This event is for people of all ages, but was designed to bring young people of St. Augustine into the coffee shop.
Feeling the heat with Bikram yoga
By Lauren DeGeorge | gargoyle@flagler.edu
As I walk into the room, or the “torture chamber” as some refer to it, the heat immediately envelops me. I search for an open spot among the other people. I need to face myself in the mirror. Class begins. It is 105 degrees. The sweating starts. In just one posture I am perspiring. More than in any other work-out. After the “standing series” I am out of breath. I have barely any energy left. But on it goes. For 90 minutes. When the teacher calls an end to it, I am tired, smelly and sweaty. I wished it wasn’t over.
Stetson Kennedy: A celebration of a legend
By Michael Isam | gargoyle@flagler.edu Photo by Michael Isam The word “legend” comes to mind when the name Stetson Kennedy enters into a conversation. A legend can be a star, a celebrity or even a fable. To the 100-plus who attended the celebration of Kennedy’s…
Facing depression in college
By Gena Anderson | ganderson@flagler.edu
Depression. The word itself has this impenetrable weight to it. Depression is something that happens to you, but we don’t look at it that way do we?
Depressed. We see it as an adjective. Mary Lou doesn’t “have depression;” she “is depressed.” By seeing it that way we remove the right of the afflicted to be afflicted, at least– I always did.
Three doses of HPV vaccine not necessary for cancer prevention, study says
By Amber James | gargoyle@flagler.edu
There has been much controversy throughout the years surrounding Gardisil and Cervarix, two FDA approved vaccines that help prevent cervical cancer.
Most recently, Republican presidential hopeful, Michele Bachmann, claimed the humanpaillomavirus (HPV) vaccine can cause mental retardation after meeting a mother who said it caused mental retardation in her daughter.